Sentences with phrase «labor struggle of»

Even wars for self - defense, legally justifiable and pulse - stirring as they are, seem in most cases to retard rather than to advance the labored struggle of mankind toward humane living.

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The combined effects of discrimination in labor, housing, and education have compounded the struggle for wealth among communities of color.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggled with how to secure the endorsement of labor unions while announcing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project they supported but environmentalists opposed, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks on Friday.

After years of struggling with infertility and 27 hours of labor, Eric David and Alexis Rae arrived stillborn.

Learn about the history of Labor Day and about the struggles and triumphs of the American Worker.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Further, as I have said before, if this little precarious foothold upon earth is all that we are ever to know of conscious living, if in fact there is no life except the material and physical, those of us who are not particularly altruistic by nature would hardly think our labors and struggles worth while.

He voted for results that favored labor unions even though he thought that union successes tended mainly to impoverish other workers, because his philosophy of struggle implied that unions should be allowed to employ their most powerful weapons.

Has life on earth labored along for two or three billion years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness of the universe?

It is the coming to a head of the struggles of all the cosmic ages for a significance that might validate their labored journeying.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

And one of the strongest prophecies, IMHO, is Isaiah 66:7 - 8 which talks about Israel being born in one day with the «labor pains» (i.e.: war and struggles that normally come with becoming a nation) only occurring after the land has become a nation.

In finding the forms of its own narrative, it meets also the labor of the human race in the larger struggle for meaning and freedom.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

Perhaps the rigors of medieval life made it necessary to have a division of labor: most people just struggled to survive, while the «religious,» freed from the duties connected with the day - to - day life of parish churches, held the contemplative fort.

He details the struggle to find a methodology which respects both the expertise of the trained scripture scholar and the insights of the ordinary reader, who is laboring not just to understand the text but to enflesh it.

(The Industrial Workers of the World, the «Wobblies» of the turn of the 20th century labor struggles, called Jesus «Jerusalem Slim» - giving Him a «Wobbly name» to signify that, while they had their issues with organized religion, thay saw Him as a kindred spirit).

Shortly before his death, Mark Twain wrote: «A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle... they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages...

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

Mortal men strive and struggle, labor to do their best (and fail), move in the direction of fulfillment through the decisions they make.

It appeared that the realities were the warring classes themselves, and so it had always been: «The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles».32 It was absurd of the German literati to espouse the misty cause of mankind.33 The only real and pressing issue was that of which side to take, labor's or capital's, in the ongoing class struggle.

These charges were related to labor struggles which stated that he was to be externed from the five districts for a period of one year.

Strawberry fields are very labor intensive and farmers struggle to not only find workers, but keep up with the cost of labor.

For the reasons outlined above and a variety of other social influences, many college operators continue to struggle to find qualified labor, as Envision Strategies» Rob White points out.

Opposition agriculture spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon says Labor will not stand in the way of any support for struggling dairy farmers.

Gareth Bale in particular was struggling, laboring to get around the pitch in open play and taking the opportunity at every stoppage of play to try to stretch out the cramps in his legs.

Regardless of how hard they struggle, says Brodeur, the pros are such slaves to the dictates of physics that the results of their labors are as foregone a conclusion as ball impact equals mass times velocity squared.

My breastfeeding relationship would have been less of a struggle and more a labor of love.

And for the majority of districts struggling to meet the new school food standards with inadequate funding and labor, the highly processed, lower priced, heat - and - eat entree will continue to remain an alluring option.

School food is a civil rights issue, and a labor activist like Jeremiah Lowery who draws on a long family history of civil rights struggle gets that.

Being in that small percentage of moms who've had a home birth, I tend to struggle with whether or not I should bother even talking about my labor and delivery when I meet another mom.

I know I personally struggled in lack of support during labor and postpartum — my mom and husband were there the entire labor and both were amazing, but I do think having a trained doula there would have been ideal, particularly in avoiding unwanted interventions.

We're struggling to make ends meet because prodromal labor at least once a week since 36w4d had us figuring that i wouldn't go «post dates» and I took off work at 40w1d (unpaid since I am a nurse and had to use most of my PTO covering low census days that I was canceled).

After a five - year struggle with infertility and IVF, a difficult induced labor, a cesarean section, a sleepy baby, oversupply issues, a hospitalization and one bout of mastitis, I felt as though Dallas and I had been through almost every barrier to breastfeeding possible by the time he was two months.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and MediLabor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medilabor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

Iannuzzi will begin his latest term at a critical juncture for the labor movement, as issues like collective bargaining and seniority are under attack nationwide, and as public K - 12 and higher education in New York struggle to cope with the devastating effects of more than $ 1 billion in cuts by state government.

«You shouldn't have to have to struggle to feed your family,» said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Pérez.

«When we learned about struggling upstate power generators at a time when downstate was starving for electricity, we were astonished to find that NY was considering a 350 mile extension cord from Quebec to NY City that denies any NYS power generator an opportunity to compete,» said Ted Skerpon, President of IBEW Local 97 and Chair of the 15,000 member NYS IBEW Utility Labor Council.

But by pushing for a $ 15 minimum wage, Cuomo has won praise from key labor unions and other parts of the institutional left that he had previously struggled to excite.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

«Given the damaging and destructive tax and budget policies coming out of Washington that seem to target poor and working class families, it's good to know that our state has some countermeasures in place that actually help struggling New Yorkers,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor - backed group that lobbies for the working poor.

The Coalition for the Homeless, joined by community groups and labor unions, crafted the proposal, which calls for 10 percent of city - subsidized new housing to be set aside for the indigent along with at least 2,500 of the New York City Housing Authority «s yearly vacancies, a new city and state program to create 30,000 units of housing for homeless people with substance abuse issues and mental disorders, and greater subsidies from Albany to assist struggling renters.

While she struggles to fulfill the expectations and demands surrounding her, she also labors, often futilely, to carve out a stable personal identity for herself — a constellation of efforts that I expect will resonate with many young scientists.

In the annals of the American labor movement, contested unionization campaigns are a common story, often involving downtrodden workers struggling against the concerted opposition of wealthy, powerful, even malign employers.

- thank you for all of your posts, they have encouraged me to go all natural into my labor where as before I was still struggling with deciding.

The movie is a labor of love by Sir Richard Attenborough, who struggled for years to get financing for his huge but «non-commercial» project.

Beyond his struggles with an unwieldy accent and the screenplay's hokum, Mr. Pitt gives a sincere if labored performance enhanced by a sense of genuine struggle.

Kristen Bell fares just as poorly as the repressed stay - at - home mom who struggles to find her voice in her marriage, trying to drum up laughs in a bra - shaming sequence that is almost identical to the one she was involved in just in the last year in her role in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle, The Boss — that it's Kunis's character, the most fashionable of the three moms (the one with perfect hair, make - up and 5 - inch designer heels) who wears doesn't know her bra isn't sexy only speaks to the film's laboring to force comedy without build - up.

Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely bereft of «entertaining» movies, or, at least, the kind of movies that aspire to merely entertain and not make you dwell on tragedy («Fruitvale Station»), the emptiness of our culture («The Bling Ring») or the struggles that come with aging and evolving with someone you love («Before Midnight»).